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January 12, 2026 mcgmg <br />cc: City manager, city attorney, city clerk, housing staff <br />Dear honorable mayor and council members: i JAN 1 2 2026 <br />'h <br />We respectfully ask the Council to adopt balanced adjustments to the proposeChtouneil Meeting <br />stabilization ordinance so it does not unintentionally reduce housing availability.City Of San Leandro <br />Our Specific Requests <br />1. Set the annual rent increase cap at 4%. Small owners is often locally defined as 10 units or <br />less. Please exempt up to 8 units (which is 1740 rental units in SL - see below) <br />2. Limit rent increases to once every 12 months. <br />3. Allow a capital improvement pass -through capped at 5% of the monthly rent to allow for <br />building maintenance and habitability <br />4. Allow banking of unused rent increases, capped at 5 years and 3% (banking is permitted in <br />Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda, and other jurisdictions which benefits BOTH housing providers and <br />owners. <br />5. Anti -harassment and retaliation already exists in federal and state law. Please remove "treble <br />damage" language snuck in under "anti -retaliation" —> makes money for lawyers and enables bad <br />actors to not pay rent and forces 98% of owners to settle false habitability claims. Even when <br />owners do nothing wrong, they settle which means: <br />A. Waive back rent amount (3-8 months or more) <br />B. Settlement money of $15k — $30k - $90k or more <br />C. Additional 3-6 months of no rent <br />B. confidentiality clause (which means bad actors have clean record to victimize someone else, <br />rinse and repeat steps A-D) <br />* There are an estimated 8,648 <br />units that could be eligible for <br />rent control under Costa <br />Hawkins (pre-t 995) <br />® An estimated 32,840 units are <br />eligible for non -rent control <br />protections <br />a "these estimates i 1CILide units <br />that are currently owner - <br />occupied <br />Single -Unit <br />Duplex <br />1,288 <br />i riplex <br />3931 <br />Fourpiex <br />532 1 € 74 <br />5-8 Units <br />815.1 <br />9-19 Units <br />792 <br />20+ Units <br />3.873 <br />IV}uiii-Family Bestride i <br />Mobile Home Spaces <br />Condos5ownhomes <br />w <br />Total <br />8,548 <br />